Fortunately, average Slashdotter is not a moron [1], like he is.
Does anyone know does he have some new project which needs promotion
in media? And may WMF give some money to him, not to mess around?
[1]
Just a couple of words for those who don't understand...
Writing encyclopedia produces responsibility. Neither Anonymous,
neither Arab Spring would happen without Wikipedia.
A person has to be very miserable not to understand that; and not to
take its own responsibility.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, I'll bite. This is just my opinion and based on SOPA in the United
States and what our government represents.
Thanks! I am responding as a non-cognitivist moral skeptic nihilist.
We have freedoms and we have
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Keegan Peterzell
keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:
Neither Anonymous,
neither Arab Spring would happen without Wikipedia.
I think you meant without the technology and concept that we
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks! I am responding as a non-cognitivist moral skeptic nihilist.
CAUTION: HUMOR!
Nice marmot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2qP
It looks like we won again.
Communication Minister Nikolai Nikiforov was also negative about the
current version of the bill, but was more relaxed about the possible
outcomes. “I don’t support Wiki’s contention that it would be closed
down. But this step is an important reaction by society, a
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:20 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
No, no, you don't understand: *my* politics are the neutral baseline,
*your* politics are weird and radical.
Yep, I forgot it. BTW, note the comments below RIA Novosti news on
Russian Wikipedia strike [1]. That baseline
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
Milos, do you have any evidence that what you have written is correct? Just
a single fact? So far the law was accepted in the second reading basically
unchanged, and is currently undergoing the third reading (which is
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a service provider exemption for entities like Wikimedia in
Russia? Is it possible that making the Russian Wikipedia inaccessible for a
period in order to protest a Russian law might be considered political
activism in
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Paul Becherer p...@wmnederland.nl wrote:
The article was an interesting read, and wasn't just about layout; it
had more to say more about *interface*, which is a more general
concept. If there's anything that can be done to increase meaningful
participation by
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
* Create useful templates, like {{welcome}, {{citation needed}},
{{infobox}}, {{delete}} etc.
Wikidata should fix the issue with templates. Thus, soon the manual
should be fixed with translate templates 1, 2...
I'd really like to hear something more than a guess :) In the sense:
Could it be said that we are now reasonably financially safe?
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I read the official blog [1] about it, but it doesn't have rationale.
And I am too lazy
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm very sorry I didn't answer this question earlier...
Thanks for the response! I thought that I'd get it, so I was mostly patient :)
The short answer is: credit goes to a new kind of banner that put several
powerful
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:
I can write a long mail to response the board statement, but past shown me
– it will be waste of time. Mean less time for my work, my chapter, and my
personal life. Cause when the WMF and the Board deciding on something,
While a number of my friends are employed by WMF and I heard no one to
complain about salary or working conditions, it would be good to have
annual report of salaries and other benefits of WMF employees compared to
the siruation in the other similar and some not so similar organizations.
I can
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Last year's financial report shows almost exactly $2.5m for Internet
hosting. I'm not sure quite what that covers
Only data-center usage
The [new] list of the Language committee [1] is now open for read-only
subscribers. The new archives will be open.
During the previous two years any valid member of the community could
apply for observer status. Since a week ago, everybody can follow the
list.
(I'm not quite sure if this
It would be very useful to express the current state of the FDC in emails
like this one -- at the top of email.
For a couple of months I was mislead that FDC is actually working and that
Wikimedia entities should do a kind of action toward FDC if they want to
get funds.
Contrary to that, just if
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede
jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am sorry I don't understand the remarks completely… can you tell me a
little bit more about what you are referring to?
As not particularly interested in the topic, I read the first
paragraph or two of the
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Patricio Lorente
patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you should read again the original email. The word proposed is
never used there. The fourth paragraph says:
For your reference, here is the updated 2013-2014 Round 1 proposal process
schedule:,
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Not just bootstrapping the content. By having the primary content be saved
in a language independent form, and always translating it on the fly, it
would not merely bootstrap content in different languages, but
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. Finding a way to capture and integrate the work OmegaWiki has
done into a new Wikidata-powered Wiktionary would be a useful start.
And we've already sort of claimed the space (though we are neglecting
it) -- it's
Sue (or anyone from staff who is more precisely in charge for this), may
you just revert this and open discussion to reach more sensible solution?
I understand that there could be a good reason for this action, but the way
it's been handled is not the perfect one. And at least permissions on a
While there are enough candidates for almost unpredictable elections
for Board (thanks to Sj's late candidature) and there are three good
candidates for two positions in FDC, there is no candidate for FDC
Ombudsman position and deadline is tomorrow evening.
So, if you have experience in finances
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski
tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote:
Well, it's Monday SF time (4 PM if Google doesn't lie to me), and we're
still waiting for some explanations on why this situations happened /at
all/.
The problem with this kind of actions is personal inability
I am leaving the movement. I thought to leave it quietly, with just a
bit more than a few words to stewards and Wikimedia Serbia, but after
the first question why I am leaving, I realized that I actually owe to
many of you the explanation for leaving the movement after almost 10
years.
If you
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
== Unfinished projects ==
Oh, and I knew that there were three unfinished projects, but I forgot
the last one.
Wikimedia movement isn't staying well with formal diplomacy. No of the
Wikimedia organizations participated even
Thanks to all of you! It really matters to know that I will be welcome if I
back and it matters that people who matters to me think that I made an
impact to them and to the movement.
I was unprepared on Amir's mail and I reacted on it emotionally. After that
I realized which kind of emails I
For those who care, I'm back.
My absence wasn't related to Wikimedia. It was about first world
problems, which hit me quite hard. I never thought that the transition
from the second to the first world problems would be painful. Few
years ago I'd have called it decadence.
So, lesson learned.
Thank to all for welcome :)
I am good. It was nothing which good introspection, some formal
education and rational thinking wasn't able to solve. Besides that, I
was better at the time when I decided to leave Wikimedia for a while.
That was the product of rational decision.
Andy, Serbian beer is
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
Was the morning after something like this?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balkanball_shenanigans.png
True, the only way how Serbs are getting really drunk. It has to be
about the strength of rakija made by
There are ~6000 languages in the world and around 3000 of them have
more than 10,000 speakers.
That approximation has some issues, but they are compensated by the
ambiguity of the opposition. Ethnologue is not the best place to find
precise data about the languages and it could count as languages
First, I want to respond to the structural questions, among them some
which I didn't mention:
In short, we can because we have organizational infrastructure,
capable to work with local people and bring them to edit Wikipedia and
other Wikimedia projects. That's not the rocket science.
Working
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
0. because we can is indeed a very poor reason to do anything. We are
also probably the only global network that can ensure complete coverage of
all Pokémon characters in 100 languages. That's far from proof that we
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
4. What does interest me, as a grantmaker, is where to draw the line
between the Rapa Nui end of the spectrum and languages that, with some
active promotion, could well become useful and much-needed reference
sources in
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
This is not quite correct. It's very hard, but possible. But Wikimedia
alone cannot do it. Wikimedia can be one of the tools that are used by the
cultural elite, which Milos brought up. Each of these languages
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Projects that are focused on language revitalization per se should be
given less priority when resources are limited, even though it breaks
my heart to say this.
I don't think that we are dealing here with
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Chris Keating
chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimedia UK does little work with Gaelic, but quite a bit with Welsh; I
wonder if Robin Owain reads this list? He's a good person to speak to about
this.
I mentioned Scots Gaelic with a good reason. Not counting
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
That means that it's the best starting point to raise that number from
157 per million to ~1000 per million. If WM UK would be successful in
achieving that goal, we'd know that it's possible. And we'll have some
ideas how
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
That means that it's the best starting point to raise that number from
157 per million to ~1000 per million. If WM UK would be successful in
achieving
/États_généraux_du_multilinguisme_dans_les_outre-mer
[3] (fr)(mul)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:États_généraux_du_multilinguisme_dans_les_outre-mer
~ Seb35
20.04.2014 05:46:47 (CEST), Milos Rancic kirjoitti:
There are ~6000 languages in the world and around 3000 of them have
more than 10,000 speakers
It turns out that Lila is actually a perfect ED. Someone capable to handle
and love a person like Wil is -- should be quite competent in handling the
rest of the community :D
On May 29, 2014 1:21 AM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Hi Erik, just for guidance here- should I not publicly
groups thus both had a team of
editors behind them.
Cheers,
Balazs
2014.05.29. 23:45, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com ezt írta:
There is ongoing Microgrants project in Wikimedia Serbia. In brief, we
asked people to give us ideas, so we could talk about them. There are
some
I want to say basically the same what Jan-Bart and Bishakha said, but
from different perspective.
The first three years of my involvement in the global community passed
in constant worries about the future of Wikimedia. Options like we
don't have enough money for the bills were the constant
Christophe, Wil tried to open issues closed few years ago. Besides that,
not under ED mandate.
Everything else in his behavior was behavioral problem, not substantial one.
Thus, quite irrelevant. Just if Lila opens the same questions -- and I am
sure they are far from her focus -- that would
On Jun 15, 2014 10:07 PM, edward edw...@logicmuseum.com wrote:
On 15/06/2014 20:08, Milos Rancic wrote:
Christophe, Wil tried to open issues closed few years ago. Besides that,
not under ED mandate.
In what sense were these issues 'closed'? 'Closed' usually means
'resolved'. As far as I
On Jul 13, 2014 4:20 AM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Hi, I'm Wil Sinclair. Strictly speaking, I've been a Wikipedian for 7
years, but I've been an active Wikipedian for less than 3 months. In
that time I believe I've seen a lot, but I still have a lot to learn.
Hi, Wil! Your name is a
For the last month or so I want to share with you the initial success
of the Microgrants 2014 project of Wikimedia Serbia. However, there
are a number of stories and it was too much to me to write about all
of them at once. So, I am splitting it, which means that you can
expect more stories during
I am finally able to share with you the biggest benefit of WMRS
Microgrants projects for this year. It's about cooperation with one
very old institution, and it was necessary to wait for their formal
letter.
But first about the side effects of the Microgrants project...
When you are going
. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 15.07.2014 06:42, Milos Rancic wrote:
For the last month or so I want to share with you the initial success
of the Microgrants 2014 project of Wikimedia Serbia. However, there
are a number of stories and it was too much to me to write about all
of them at once
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote:
I see that the video is marked CC BY-NC-ND. Will all other videos also be
under that license?
That's their proprietary, artistic work. We are getting
scientific/educational videos. Something like ten time 3-5 minutes of
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Uh, wait. Please answer the question clearly and unambiguously. What exact
license will the proposed contributions be under?
On Jul 18, 2014 2:06 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that the best one
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
James, you're not the only one that was confused by that. Please, Milos, stay
focused on being helpful and furthering the Wikimedia mission (as you do in
an amazing way!), and please don't troll...
We need some fun,
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
We need a straight answer, which I notice you've still yet to give.
Then RPL, as I said.
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
In general, sarcasm on large public lists is risky, and in my experience
sarcasm is best tagged with sarcasm/sarcasm or ;).
That wouldn't be fun :) It's not about sarcasm, it's about trolling :P
Would have left the discussion to
From Bay Area hipsters to revolutionaries in less than five months. That's
the change!
Welcome!
On Oct 6, 2014 10:43 PM, Damon Sicore dsic...@wikimedia.org wrote:
wikimedia-l,
On arrival I was asked to describe a few leadership principles and
practices I live out. In my response I included
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
The community has heard a lot from the WMF about courage, honesty,
integrity and leadership – and rather too much of the latter of late: let's
remember that the Wikimedia Foundation's values[1] speak of *community-led*
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Is someone saying I have courage and integrity all it takes to convince
you that they are indeed possessed of those qualities? Every politician
says that. I'd reserve judgment and wait to see their performance.
That's good
I think that this is extremely important moment in the existence of
Wikimedia and contemporary free content movement. The future of the concept
of free knowledge could depend on how Wikimedia positions itself in
relation to this issue and the future similar ones.
This is not about our personal
What about a notice for users from Russia: We are not able to process
money from Russia now, but you are welcome to donate to Wikimedia Russia by
using this bank account -- if nothing more creative could be imagined?
On Nov 13, 2014 4:46 AM, Lisa Gruwell lgruw...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello
Geoff (and others from WMF), in the situations like this one is, it is much
less important why you did something than how you did something.
Global tensions are high, they could become the past in a year, but we
could be the main losers of the present tensions.
We depend on trust of people all
On Nov 14, 2014 10:00 PM, rubin.happy rubin.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
That's not the first, and even not the 10th attempt of our authorities to
create own Wikipedia, own YouTube and so on.
They will talk about it, they could even spend some budget but it's not
likely to result in something that
I don't see economics here, unless you are extremely naive about reality.
There are some items -- abused or not for marketing purposes of the
entities used for achieving interests of their shareholders -- which belong
to the corpus of common good. Like air and free knowledge are, for example.
On Dec 1, 2014 8:26 AM, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote:
On 12/1/14, 7:11 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
There are some items -- abused or not for marketing purposes of the
entities used for achieving interests of their shareholders -- which
belong
to the corpus of common good. Like air and free
I found on Facebook feed the next article [1]. The article title was
so amusing that I had to read the article: Stop giving Wikimedia
money.
Although I thought I'll find something totally irrelevant, the article
actually reveals that the author is pretty well introduced into
internal Wikimedia
On Dec 5, 2014 10:07 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
It also helps that Uber is a $40 billion dollar for-profit company with
the
sole objective of a financial return for its owners. The comparison seems
inapt.
That's valid structural point, as well.
However, there are some comparable
On Dec 5, 2014 10:44 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
And Silicon Valley didn't yet figured out how to transplant education
directly into the brain. And there are many basics which has to be learned
by a competent teacher.
(Nah, still have problems with to learn/to teach dichotomy. It's
May someone give a digest report on this issue. They are odd and
persistent. Eternal September has come into India or something else?
On Dec 23, 2014 9:56 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 December 2014 at 08:43, Golf Today li...@golf.indiatodaylive.com
wrote:
Attention : LILA TETRIKOV
It turns out that something happens when you stop grumbling and start
doing things. To be honest, initially I was really surprised that it's
working. So, I want to assure you that that works and I would
recommend you to try the same.
This issue was raised at least two times on this list during
This story is at once a personal one, but its products could affect
our whole movement. Thus I feel a duty to share it with you.
(Disclaimer: I am under the influence of sljivovica [1], which means
that my English syntax could betray me.
Also, keep in mind that one of the comments which I got
:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I would actually say: Is there a point to have a prescriptive work
without ND clause?
Course there is. The text of the CC licenses, for example, is under CC0;
Creative Commons is trademarked and that trademark
As some of you know, we are working on the project [1] with Matica
srpska [2]. Basically, that opens numerous possibilities and here is
one of them.
My professor, a Board member of Matica srpska and one of two
co-authors of the Normative Grammar of Serbian Language wants to open
the Grammar.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm finding this a bit difficult to parse; am I interpreting it correctly
if I read it as: because the project is to produce a prescriptive,
normative grammar, there's a desired No Derivatives element of any adopted
, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Which, actually, reminds me that we definitely need a non-free
repository. For example, we could get that grammar to be quoted in
whole, but there is no sense to change it.
But, my initial point was: Am I missing something? Would
Cross-list posting, as it's relevant to Wiktionary and Wikimedia as a whole.
First of all, please go to Meta page Names of Wikimedia languages
[1] and do the best to proofread or translate items. That's
strategically important set of lists for the movement. We have to know
the names of Wikimedia
On Jun 5, 2015 03:01, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
Glad to hear that :) I mean, at least I am
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
# We use S/N/O for many other kinds of votes, including FDC, steward,
Arbitration Committee, and featured content votes. I have not heard
disagreement with it until now, which suggests that generally there is
consensus for this
I suppose that nobody commented my idea about the Assembly because of
two main reasons: it's a different paradigm, as well as it doesn't
seem realistic.
The cure for different paradigm acceptance is repeating it until it
becomes familiar :P
But, of course, much more important reason is the fact
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
I do not think community assembly as a replacement for the Board would work.
A body of 10 people and a body of say 50 people are different bodies and
they should have different functions.
I didn't say that CA should
I've created the draft for our future approach in building new
Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) editions:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developing_new_language_editions_of_Wikipedia
Feel free to contribute to it :)
* * *
{{draft}}
The aim of this page is to help creation of new
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the funny thing with current system is that if people had voted in
most rational way - i.e. to maximize the impact of their votes - the
results would have been negative for all candidates - as this year none of
That's quite a surprise! I am really happy to see the substantial changes!
Congratulations!
On Jun 6, 2015 01:14, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
election are now available on Meta-Wiki:
When you get data, at some point of time you start thinking about
quite fringe comparisons. But that could actually give some useful
conclusions, like this time it did [1].
We did the next:
* Used the number of primary speakers from Ethnologue. (Erik Zachte is
using approximate number of primary
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Anders Wennersten
m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
The result could also be interpreted as a thundering success for the voting
method being used.
Just to be clear: I think you (Election committee) did very good job.
Inside of the stable circumstances, like they
I think the reason is more than obvious: Belarus is south of Moldova and
Ukraine is in between, so it went south. As Russia is basically on the east
of all of three countries, it's logical to put it among the northern
countries.
On Jun 11, 2015 9:59 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On Jun 11, 2015 10:06 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 2015-06-11 22:03, Milos Rancic wrote:
I think the reason is more than obvious: Belarus is south of Moldova and
Ukraine is in between, so it went south. As Russia is basically on the
east
of all of three countries, it's
(Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic, 08/06/2015 00:23:
And I suppose somebody with statistical knowledge would be able to
give us the number which would have meaning ability to create
Wikipedia article.
Why not use the human development index (HDI) as factor? Also, instead
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
And either I missed it, or nobody mentioned it yet, but ahem ahem ahem
ContentTranslation. It is already helping Wikipedias in minorized languages
to create a lot of meaningful articles more easily, and with
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
One more lame mistake: It's not about countries, but about languages.
Thus: немачки, njemački, њемачки, njemački,
Khm... немачки, nemački, њемачки, njemački,
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a short note here... The complexity of the task, which I think I
comprehend, is so significant, that I made the lamest mistake from my
own perspective. Please note that the page Names of Wikimedia
languages [1] assumes
existing) metric of active-editors-per-million-speakers is, it
seems to me, a far more robust metric. Erik Z.'s stats.wikimedia.org is
offering that metric.
A.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
When you get data, at some point of time you start
existing) metric of active-editors-per-million-speakers is, it
seems to me, a far more robust metric. Erik Z.'s stats.wikimedia.org is
offering that metric.
A.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
When you get data, at some point of time you start
... it would be good to talk a bit about the state of our community
and movement.
Initially, I was quite positively surprised by the fact that this will
be the best WMF Board elections ever in the terms of turnout of
voters. It will beat 2007 elections and it will be likely 2.5 times
better than
Jönsson brevlis...@gmail.com:
2015-05-31 22:57 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
... it would be good to talk a bit about the state of our community
and movement.
Initially, I was quite positively surprised by the fact that this will
be the best WMF Board elections ever in the terms
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of
activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg.
Facebook,
On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
* MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't
matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of
translated most used
On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
Won't get a project? Are you saying that new project language
editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language
are all
Below is the list of the languages sorted by the number of L2 speakers
(more than one million of them).
L2 speakers appear in two occasions:
* First and important to us is about languages used for wider
communication. For example, French is L2 among educated people of West
Africa.
* The second
wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com
wrote:
3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator
I would consider this discussion as a sensible one if you are editors of
Cebuano and Waray-Waray Wikipedias, oppose the idea of creating
bot-generated articles and have better plan how to increase quality and
quantity of those projects. Optionally, you are always free to offer your
help to those
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